2021 Optimistic?

[Mr. Ed]

2020 has been a doozy of a year if you consider how many things went wrong or if you prefer what went right.

I am optimistic about 2021. I am working hard and diligently in preparation for my open water scuba certification. However, my liver is excreting bile into my causing severe stomach pain. My only other obstacle is I get tired easily making anytime physical exertion nearly impossible.

Steps to overcome these obstacles: Dr appointment with gallbladder surgeon, Amazon order arriving tomorrow Zhou Muscle BCCA, HMB capsule supports muscle recovery.

Swim pool laps at YMCA once a week. PADI physical exam consists of swimming length of pool 32 times or 16 laps total, and float for ten minutes. I figure by passing the physical exam I can complete the rest of the diving exercises. I’ve already completed most of the diving skills, it simply be matter of review.

Last year the Corona virus prevented us from traveling out of state. 2021 I hope to travel to New Jersey to visit a mutual friend and meet my brothers between New York and Georgia.

Besides school sports I’ve never trained for anything before, but reaching the goal of open water certification inspires me to succeed.

 

[asp3]

My outlook is mixed. I'm optimistic that things will eventually get back to a state where we'll be able to do possibly most of the things we were able to do before the pandemic hit.

I'm pessimistic that the powers that be will be able to enact protection and recovery laws that will prevent enough people from being evicted, prevent enough people from going hungry and will prevent those people who are not in danger of losing their housing and/or food from benefiting from such acts at the expense of people who are in danger.

 

[Knight]

I'm optimistic that the vaccines will begin to change the curve of the covid-19 virus. That by 2022 that curve begun in 2021 will translate into a return of SOME of what everyone in the world considers their life prior to the virus was.

I'm pessimistic about the ability to recover from the economic impact the virus has caused.

 

[Pecos]

My outlook is mixed. I'm optimistic that things will eventually get back to a state where we'll be able to do possibly most of the things we were able to do before the pandemic hit.

I'm pessimistic that the powers that be will be able to enact protection and recovery laws that will prevent enough people from being evicted, prevent enough people from going hungry and will prevent those people who are not in danger of losing their housing and/or food from benefiting from such acts at the expense of people who are in danger.

You are right on target.

 

[Repondering]

2018 I buried my brother. 2019 I buried my mother after a long, difficult decline. Then at tax time I was responsible for 3 tax returns, mine, hers and the family trust. Then I inherited the farm and a bunch of responsibilities. It worked OK and I rewarded myself with a journey to Israel and that was good. 2020 was meant to be the next chapter but I then had a (minor) surgery........OK, it's only "minor" when it's somebody else! It was awful! The incision site is still tender if I'm not careful. Then COVID came and my already pretty shaky social life became social isolation.

Still, I'm comparatively lucky: a lot of people are unemployed, bankrupt, widowed, rendered by the virus to being invalids or dead.
I'm none of those things. Yet.

Optimistic? I'm ready for s**t storm to keep coming. With a bit of luck it might not be too bad. I'm cautiously hopeful.

 

[Furryanimal]

Ask me in March.

 

[Rosemarie]

The main concern at the moment is getting this virus under control. I don't think it will ever be eradicated and I think the wearing of face-masks will become the norm.
Putting aside the virus, there are other major problems in the world. The situation in the Middle East must be sorted out. People starving, so many refugees, innocents being murdered. The Western countries have already interfered too much in the affairs of other countries, but we are all affected by the unrest and we must get together and do something about it.
It's impossible for developed countries to absorb so many migrants. We must do something to bring peace to their home countries so that they can return and start a new chapter.

 

[Murrmurr]

My outlook is mixed. I'm optimistic that things will eventually get back to a state where we'll be able to do possibly most of the things we were able to do before the pandemic hit.

I'm pessimistic that the powers that be will be able to enact protection and recovery laws that will prevent enough people from being evicted, prevent enough people from going hungry and will prevent those people who are not in danger of losing their housing and/or food from benefiting from such acts at the expense of people who are in danger.

This is what I'm envisioning, too.

On a more personal level I expect a few decisions I went with in 2020 are gonna bite my toches in '21.

 

[grahamg]

I hope the prediction that the wearing of facemasks will become the norm in perpetuity are proved wrong, and you have to wonder just how full of plastics we want our oceans to become, (something I can't see being brought under control in any case though I admit! ).
I'm optimistic about the future overall, though I can see there will be many many challenges to face up to, personally and more broadly.